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Thursday April 20th, 2017 with Retro Renny
Great ganja almighty! It's 4-20 and to celebrate Retro Renny plays marijuana music from the past. Learn about our herb heritage with Cab Calloway, Chuck Higgins, John Prine, the Supersuckers and more. Spark it up, tune it in and turn it up!

Herb heritage on Lesson Hear with some viper jazz from the Thirties, hophead rhythm & blues from the Forties & Fifties, hippie folk and country from the early Seventies and stoner psychobilly from the Nineties.

When I'm In My Tea a.k.a. The Reefer No.
JO-JO ADAMS with MAXWELL DAVIS & HIS BAND - The Aladdin Records Story - 1946 Aladdin Records/1994 EMI Records

Reefer Man
CAB CALLOWAY & HIS ORCHESTRA - Cab Calloway - Best Of The Big Bands - 1932 Brunswick Records/1990 CBS Records

Marihuana Boogie
LALO GUERRERO - Jumpin' Like Mad - Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' - 1949 Imperial Records/1996 Capitol Records

Special Tea
CHUCK HIGGINS - Pachuko Hop - 1954 Specialty Records (unissued)/1992 Specialty Records

Killin' Jive
CRAZY RHYTHM DADDIES - Crazy Rhythm Daddies - 1996 Igloo Records

Illegal Smile
JOHN PRINE - John Prine - 1971 Atlantic Records

One Toke Over The LIne
BREWER & SHIPLEY - Rock 'n' Roll Reunion: Class Of 71 - 1970 Kama Sutra Records/1998 Madacy Entertainment

Non-Addictive Marijuana
SUPERSUCKERS - Must've Been High - 1997 Sub Pop Records

(Down To) Seeds & Stems (Again)
COMMANDER CODY & HIS LOST PLANET AIRMEN - Too Much Fun - The Best Of Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen - 1974 Paramount Records/1990 MCA REcords

Marijuana
REVEREND HORTON HEAT - Smoke 'em If You Got 'em - 1990 Sub Pop Records

Stoned For The Rest Of My Life
MAD DADDYS - Fifty Dollar Baby - 1992 Sympathy For The Records Industry

Blabber 'n' Smoke
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - The Spotlight Kid - 1972 Reprise Records/1990 Reprise Records

Hashishin
BUFFY SAINTE MARIE with RY COODER - Performance - 1970 Warner Bros. Records

Macka Splaff
STEEL PULSE - Handsworth Revolution - 1978 Island Records

Let's Go Get Stoned
RAY CHARLES - Anthology - 1966 ABC Records/1998 Rhino Records

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